Be cautious if you are approached by David Yuukon, indie director/actor. I'm telling you screenwriters this to protect all the hardworking screenwriters out there and save them time. This person will start out acting like he agrees to your pricing terms for a script rewrite. Initially, he won't object when you give him the pricing terms. He'll play along as if he can afford to pay you to clean up someone else's script. From there, he'll insist on having a meeting to talk about the script's story problems, expecting to get free creative input on the script. Later on, he'll come up with a bogus excuse, claiming that he did not have time to tell you that he --doesn't have money to pay-- you. Yet he'll demand that you work for him for free. He wants to have an experienced writer clean up someone else's script, which he optioned for $1, yet he expects the experienced writer to work for free. Experienced writers don't work for free. If a director wants you to put in 2-3 months of your life to clean up another writer's poorly written script either for free or even as deferred pay (which according to literary managers' advice, you'll never see the money), run the other way. Even workers at fastfood restaurant chains get paid for their time, doing brainless work, so you writers out their shouldn't have to lower yourself to work for free. Slavery ended many years ago.
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